How big was the shitstorm on /a/ when this happened?

>being this new

every new episode of code geass was a wild ride

>>138854859
He should have commanded: Be my sex slave. Such an idiot.

Literally the whole board cared

>>138854859
That was possible one of the stupidest moments in all of anime, plotwise.

/a/ peaked when Code Geass was airing. There hasn't been a moment in time that was better

>>138856500
2010-2011 was also good in my opinion

Spring 2013 was a pretty good season as well, and it influenced /a/ in a pretty good way.

>implying anyone from back then is still on 4chan

>>138856547
What happened 2013?
Klk?

>>138857761
I'm here.

>>138856321
People who say this have never seen enough shows from the 80s and 90s, especially OVAs, with far more stupid moments. At least in this case you could see the result coming from a mile away if you paid any attention. Still silly, but then again the show always was like that and knew it.

>>138857819
Liar

>>138857819
my condolences

>>138857793
Hataraku Maou, Gargantia, RDG, 8man, Railgun S, Yuyushiki...even the god damn Aku no Hana anime.

it was an absolutely lovely season

>>138856321
not really. It was convenient for the plot but it's not like it's completely ridiculous.

>>138857819
Same here, sadly.

>>138857889
I want to drink with the guy that came up with that.

I burst in laughter when this shit happened, it came out of nowhere.

No one really cared they said that it was shit, complained that the story os going to be predicable, and replied that they're only doing this to fuck with what was happening in the series

>>138854859
Literally ragedropped the series for the rest of the first season and felt like shit for several days afterwards. I think Euphemia was developing into my first waifu and that absolute bullshit was just too much.

>>138857793
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJz2WB3dF10

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>Not being here for Geass
I'm sorry for you're loss.

>>138858029
I was just about to post this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b-Jqoljpl4

New /a/ has no idea how boring /a/ is now. It's just a bunch of general threads where people say the same 20 things and then remake the thread.

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>tfw people say Code Geass airing was the best thing to happen to /a/
>tfw wish I was old enough and not so much of a faggot at the time to post on /a/ to be there for the ride
And now that the archives are destroyed, I'll never be able to see what it was like in all of its unadulterated glory.

>Tfw every single thread for 4 pages was the image of her shooting them
Good times

If this aired today there would be a fuckton of reaction videos on youtube.

There are people on 4chan right now that have never posted without captchas, and don't even know about the incident that caused them.

>>138854859
If Lelouch just told her to suck his dick and Suzaku walked in, what would have happened?

>>138858311
>And now that the archives are destroyed
Are people really this clueless?

I miss watching Guilty Crown with all u fags

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>>138858438
Cornelia a cute

>>138857793
To sum up Spring 2013
>potato
>GENUINE
>Holy shit, he just saved you from pirates, you ungrateful bitch
>belly-dancing
>Get in the robot, Saten

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At least I was here when Guts finally got off the boat.


>>138858485
Not that anon, but there are huge gaps in them. Whole months..

>>138854859
5 years from now, and you will remember this season as DEEN finds a way and Erased's NTR

What's next?
What could /a/ watch together and have fun again?

>>138858485
Considering that anon doesn't seem to realize that the archives didn't go back to Euphie in the first place, I'd say yes.

>>138858527
These memes should have never died.

>>138858539
Mayoiga, next seasons buswreck

>>138858539
Too many people who actually made content have left. All that's left is forgettable general threads.

>>138854889
>being this new
That episode aired seven and a half years ago.

>>138858527
What about brain problems?

>>138858539
after Geass the only big shows I think had really enjoyable discussion as they were airing were Madoka and Psycho Pass

>>138858644
I hate to tell you this, but it aired nine years ago in two days.

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>tfw never watched Code Gayass with /a/
>tfw never watched Shitty Crown with /a/
>tfw I was around when Valvrave was airing, but chose not to pick it up
>tfw I dropped Cross Ange just before the second half

>>138858676
Fuck, I forgot S1 was in Spring.

>>138858528
>FINALLY get off the boat
>see you in 6 months faggots!

i really hate that i like this stupid manga

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>>138858696
you poor faggot

>>138858721
You are hero in your life anon

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>>138858696
>He never got to see Onizuka tear down the wall.

>>138857761
Geass wasn't even that long ago. I remember the GSD shitstorms, and I remember some threads from when the first FMA anime aired.

Luckily, I think /a/ hasn't turned into a completely cancer board like others here on 4chan (it's possible to at least have discussion about shows / manga) but its definitely getting not as good. Honestly, what I miss was the sense of the entire board watching a show together (even if they never were in the first place). Like, before 2012 shows would crop up and it seemed like everyone on the board was talking about it. Now every show gets one thread. It feels like everyone is more divided.

That by itself isn't terrible, but that gets coupled with the fact that none of these threads really generate OC anymore (I think this is due to the website wide backlash against memes) makes the whole board feel stale.

>>138858696

But you did right anon, because all those shows, except for Geass, are shit.

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>Code Geass is 10 years old

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What was it like watching Madoka with /a/?

>mfw i should have been on /a/ at 9 years old to not be considere a newfag.

>>138858908
>I think this is due to the website wide backlash against memes
I think the reason why no one allows memes anymore is because it attracts the wrong type of people. If you look at /v/ and see how that place is somewhat overrun with people talking about memes rather than content, I guess that's why people dislike them and discourage them.
But then again I'm a newfag so I don't know what I'm talking about.

>>138858696
Only the first of those is actually worth watching even without /a/, so you lose anon.

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>>138858693
>Code Geass is almost 10 years old

>>138858908
OPM hyped /a/ like crazy when the anime was announced and things were so good. Too bad hipsters and shitposters need to falseflag everything and it became cancerous

>>138854859
ANYONE REMEMBERS THE SHITSTORM WHEN /gg/ DROPPED CODE GEASS ?!?!

>>138858942

Fun. There were a lot of arguments about PMMM vs. Infinite Stratos. Episode 10 was legendary. What often gets ignored (and why I think watching Madoka was a billion times better if you watched it while it was airing) is that a huge earthquake hit Japan after episode 10 aired, delaying the final 2 episodes by a month. It was one of the first seasons that I got to experience with /a/ and its really a fond memory of the site.

Omegamon

>>138858894
>2006 years wasn't even that long ago, I remember stuff from 2004!
You're trying too hard, anon.

>>138858866
>old /a/ complaining about wanting old /a/ back

Really though, it's interesting to see the way our language and memery have evolved since 2008.

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>tfw ultranew hypercancer who never got to experience anything fun with /a/
Here's hoping that next season will have something fun.

>>138858908
>tfw Kill la Kill was hated because the new generation of faggot anons hate it when shows have more than one thread

Fuck /a/.

>>138858908
I left /g/ because it turned into complete shit and meme-spewing. /a/'s the only board I visit now..


>>138859183
old /a/ seemed really easy to amuse, almost to a childrish degree

now everyone's a sourpuss (even me)

>>138859224
Tip never uses "tfw" you god damn faggot.

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>>138859183
Old /a/ was basically anime themed /b/. Something most people would reject nowadays.

Things like old image macros were posted unironically.

>>138859265
Who is Tip and why does he never tfw?

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>>138858029
>mfw I was here for it and still have not watched CG to this day.

>>138859265
>tfw you can't even use tfw

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>>138859247
agreed

This spring needs a trainwreck and a good comedy anime to whip up the whole board in shape.

>>138859305
Why? Why are you proud of this ?

>>138858959
You're still a newfag if you're going to be a little bitch

>I was born in 1998 stop bullying me fampai!

Fuck off you little late-90s faggot

>>138858942
Amazing. Dozens of daily threads all day every day with tons of good content, long lasting meme-ery, good natured ribbing about the show's more ridiculous bits, outlandish theories, high quality fanart in drawfag threads, and so on.

>>138859305
You're missing out boy

>>138859284
>THE THING IN THE PICTURE
>FITS THIS DESCRIPTION
I can't fathom for the life of me why I thought demotivationals were funny in high school.

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>>138859305
>posting smug ojou
>Bragging about missing out on fun
You make awful decisions.

>>138859335
Well there are plenty of potential trainwrecks next season.

>>138859365
My teacher during my senior year showed the class a website strictly for demotivationals and I couldn't help but cringe.

>>138858527
You forgot val"was it rape?" and free announcement

>>138859366
>I can feel the wiring behind my penis lumping out near the nutbladder place and I think it is because of excitement from Hidamari Sketch.
every time

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>>138859370
>muh fun
Let me guess, you also enjoyed TTGL?

>>138859224
Boku dake's cuckwave was pretty close to being fun.
I just hope that most people get that it's just banter and people aren't actually upset.

>>138859419
How is having fun a negative thing?
And yes, but I didn't watch it with /a/.

>>138859419
>mocks fun
>posts keions

>>138859366
That thread reminds me of the light-hearted and whimsical conversations you'd find on 2ch.

What happened, /a/?

>>138859434
Fun being bad I think is /v/ influence.

>>138859407
>Free announcement

That was probably the most magnificent shitstorm ever in /a/ after kimi ga nozomu eien.

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>>138859419
>Not watching TTGL with /a/

>>138859465
Are you saying /v/ hates having fun?
That's some extreme autism.

>>138859464
Lack of ability to have a benefit of a doubt for posters due to the diluting of what you see as 'peers' by 'outsiders'.
Is person X really that stupid? Yes, because they're an outsider.
Is person X really that stupid? No, because they're joking. There's no way they could not know that Ladies so they must be joking.

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>>138859483
I thought Commie's fansubbing for Free was icing on the cake

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>>138859459
I guess you could say, you see what I did there?

Geass Sundays with /a/ were fun, but I couldn't suffer through the other shows, not even for the threads on here.

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>>138859490
Every time this show aired it got 1000+ threads out the ass especially last season

Reminder we're getting two more

>>138854859
It was like Kill la Kill, stickys and shit

>>138859512
Stop it anon you're taking me back to the good days ;_;

>>138857793
Winter 2014

Shirobako threads were nice

>>138859503
Fun is for casuals
Or in other words, you say something is fun if you have no argument.

>>138859365
Really, no memes are actually that funny. Its like when someone in your group of friends makes a funny a joke, and you guys reference the joke in the future. The reference isn't really funny, except the memory of what it is referencing is a funny / fond memory. Memes are basically that reference, except unlike with a group of friends, how many people were actually around for the incident that made it funny? So as communities get larger memes become less of something that feels like everyone got to experience together as a group of friends, and devolves into what is essentially a joke where the only punchline is "I know this reference". Basically I think the internet / memes got to popular for us to enjoy them.

>>138859419
>doesn't know /a/ likes fun things
It's okay anon, you don't have to try so hard to fit in

>>138859512
This, I say one bad thing about a anime and I'm called a crossboarder because I have a different opinion.

>>138857819
We're here forever, friend.

>>138859589
You're called a crossboarder because you're wrong, idiot

>>138859559
>two more seasons of symphogear

I like it

>>138859589
That's not what he's saying at all, he's saying things so retarded they would have been dismissed as jokes before are now being said seriously.

>>138859366
>I lol'd 6 times
>oh lord did I lol
>I'm loling

If anyone posted like this today they'd be written off as cancerous. How interdasting

>>138859622
That's a pretty trash thread, anon.
With any hope most of those people are dead.

>>138858528
Yeah I'm a recentfag too. Really happy about boat departure in my lifetime. An anime and more manga coming up. Holy shit. might have to hold off on killing myself a bit longer

>>138859609
How does someone being wrong make them a crossboarder? They're just wrong, moron.
>>138859619
I misunderstood that but I see what's he saying. I might need to go to sleep.

>>138859661
If you think about it, lots of anons have died and never even got to see Guts get off the boat.

Naruto threads are what killed /a/

>>138859366
/a/ seemed like a place you'd visit to have fun.

now, visiting /a/ feels like a chore

you don't even know who's trolling and who's legitimately wrong


>>138859686
...damn

>>138859686
Yeah yeah, don't try the "post:feels" card

>>138859622
Because it was almost a decade ago and lol has become too mainstream

"coolface" was a meme popular on /v/ in 2009 and now it is shit and no one uses it- the other day I saw some dumb ten year old with a "umad" shirt with coolface on it.

The fact is that normalfags ruin everything.

>>138859622
Well it's the evolution of terminology. People outside of 4chan didn't really talk like that. Now we move onto shit like 'kek', because people outside 4chan still don't use it (I think, anyway. I don't really go anywhere but 4chan).
The insider/outsider dichotomy drives a lot of what 4chan's boards are about.

It's also why it's important to drop memes and lingo like hot fucking rocks when they're picked up by outsiders. More difficult today though since shit gets picked up so fast that you see it being posted here by outsiders as if they are bringing it here. Or rather, bringing outsider variants here.
Which just makes it more important to hold nothing sacred but the distain of outsiders, even if it's just to get outsiders to also pretend to hate outsiders.

>>138859713
/a/ always had naruto threads. It's tolerance of naruto threads that killed /a/. It's having them accepted, even reluctantly.
Not only are there big three threads, there are big three GENERALS.
That's unfathomable.

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>fukkireta is 6 years old

>>138859713
This

And now they get away with it "because it's boruto XD!"

Though I remember there being naruto threads allowed as far back as 2012 so clearly the cancer spread quickly.

>>138859775
>People outside of 4chan didn't really talk like that
"lol" was never even remotely a secret club thing.

>>138859313
That was one of the biggest shitstorm on /a/ ever.... only thing i can think of on par was Mami's head...

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>>138859775
>It's also why it's important to drop memes and lingo like hot fucking rocks when they're picked up by outsiders. More difficult today though since shit gets picked up so fast that you see it being posted here by outsiders as if they are bringing it here. Or rather, bringing outsider variants here.
>Which just makes it more important to hold nothing sacred but the distain of outsiders, even if it's just to get outsiders to also pretend to hate outsiders.

The funny thing about /pol/ and /r9k/ is that they seem to make a conscious effort to make memes too toxic for outsiders to use, like the attempts of tumblr to co-opt Pepe and the subsequent flood of poop related pepes and /pol/'s association of pepe with Trump.

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>>138859813

>>138859799
Lol fell into disuse as old people discovered how to use the internet and began using it also

>>138859775
Naruto threads didn't ruin /a/, anon.

it's /a/ that runed itself

>>138859686
Forget the boat, how many people do you think have died and are still dying while X never comes off hiatus?

>>138859889
>never comes off hiatus
h-haven't you heard?

>>138859166
I thought Geass was 2008 for some reason, so I stand corrected. Nevertheless, now I'm remembering Saru Lock and his paranoid black helicopter rants from the GSD finale thread.

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>>138859855
>2010
>it's nice that we're getting a sequel

>2016
>5,000 anons have died waiting for season 2

>>138859907
Not even going to check, you can't get me that easily.

>>138859924
Saru Lock was around for that long? Shit, I thought he was newer than I was. What was he saying about Seed?

>>138859889
With Berserk I think Miura is fully capable of finishing the story within his life time. It seems likes the story is heading towards a conclusion, no matter how slowly.

But Togashi has something like 3 or 4 more arcs planned? The pace he is setting along with the fact that I think he is in poorer health makes me pretty much fully confident that there will never be an end to HxH. I think he is literally going to die in the middle of some arc. It's pretty hopeless feeling.

I wonder if its similar to what fans of Zero no Tsukaima felt.

>>138859959
Oh, he was arguing about the final ep like everyone else but he also went on several rants about black helicopters following him.

He was also vandalizing wikipedia.

>>138859959
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/03/18-1/shueisha-confirms-hunter-x-hunter-mangas-april-18-return

sorry for linking CR

>>138859959
>>138860007
>X
>HxH
You fucking idiots are making me feel old.

>>138859366
I-I did back then. I'm no native English speaker, and thought that was the normal term.
Oh well, fun times.

>>138859997
>>138860017

>>138860017
HXH first came out in 1998, which is one year after One Piece. Togashi will definitely be dead by the time it's finished.

I've been browsing /a/ since 2008 and I've never been in the habit of downloading manga and anime. Even if the quality is worse I just watch streams and read mangahosting websites.

code geass is the reason I came to /a/

>>138854859
Shitstorm? It was so fucking fun.

>/a/ laughing of killing elevens
>multiple fucking threads every hour about what happened, and when I mean multiple I mean you'd think it was a Code Geass site.

Same thing with Gurren Lagann and Madoka. Stein's;Gate ep23 was legendary as well.

Everyone was so easy to amuse then. Nowadays, everyone's so cynical, so angry.

Content creators are gone as well.

Basically right now if you have "fun" with a series that actually looks fun to a lot of people, those not watching it are livid you are having fun.

I don't know what happened here.

>>138859305
I still haven't watched any Monogatari series since Bake.

>>138860110
I watched one episode of bake in spring 2010 and then never watched any more except random clips on youtube

>>138859775
>People outside of 4chan didn't really talk like that.

Like people from AOL?
No, they really did. Fucking AOLers ruined the Internet.

How long will /a/ continue to exist?
What will it be like in 10 years?

>>138859464
We got popular. That's about it.

>>138860090
>I don't find things that are supposed to be enjoyable to be enjoyable at all

/v/ happened

>>138860149
In ten years I'll have killed Hiro and taken over his life secretly, and I'll ban people for completely retarded reasons constantly. Screencap this post,

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>>138860090
People don't even watch the anime they're trying to discuss, are they?

They're just saying what other people say.

it has turned into /v/ in this regard (I don't visit that place, but I've heard that they don't have fun by playing games, but by insulting other people's taste in games)

I, for one, watched the Toriko anime and completely enjoyed it.

>>138860194
Forwarding to nip police.

best show I've watched with /a was aquarion evol, that shit was cash

>>138860212
This is the problem. For every person who's got legitimate problems with /a/'s culture shifts, there's two or three spics with bad English who think the problem with /a/ is that it doesn't like their shitty battle shounen.

>>138859483
>>138859519
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tML0GaXxkwA

Fun times

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Star Driver was only fun because I could watch it with /a/ every week.

It was also the last time I posted anything on /a/.

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Who was here for this? I know some of you are still here when this happened.

>Nice boat
>Manamifags
>infinite harem
Good times

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>>138858781
CrossAnge was so much fun. I believe the threads played a big role.

im just gonna leave this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuvwGdsUahA

>>138856500
I've never seen a single anime community that didn't peak while code geass was airing

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>tfw /a/ and 4chan generally went to shit just after /pol/ was brought back around 2012

>>138858064
How is that our fault? If the mods did their jobs, general threads wouldnt exist

This isnt a fucking forum

>>138858866
>I miss old /a/
Even in 2008 anon were saying it kek

>>138862515
Honestly that's one of the four main reasons I think the site's quality has degraded.

The other three are the loss of content creators which every board has suffered from, the adoption of a universal us vs them mentality which has caused every poster to assume every other poster is a new fag or sitosterol regardless of the discussion topic, and 'generals' taking over on every board.

The last of which is the worst since it stifles creativity and only serves to segment the user base, dividing it and leading to a greater adoption of the us vs them shot that already poisoned it.

>>138859081
Sorry we don't want to attract 12 year olds like you

Geass was the good kind of bad, OPM is just fucking garbage

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>>138859559
I don't know how they manage to make this shit so hype everytime.

>>138862616
You know the reason quality degraded after /pol/ came back is not because of /pol/ right? If you ever looked at /q/ or /qa/ you'd realise there has been a long shitposting war against the board by tumblrtards for a long time

They have been falseflagging for fucking ever trying to get the board deleted. Making /pol/ look like its flooding the site when it actually isn't

Why would /pol/ users be interested in talking to people who don't follow any world events and therefore don't understand the trends we see all the time?

>>138862600
That's because 2007 is the cutoff. And Code Geass was shit. The weekly threads were just a retarded attempt to emulate the actual TTGL shitstorms that happened because people thought that was the normal way to post and not the exception.

The amount of traffic coming to 4chan exploded in 2007 in a way that was impossible to properly assimilate them. In /a/ specifically there was an influx of shitty posters because of a direct pipeline from websites like narutofan and gaia.

It's good that we get new posters to keep things fresh. It was bad that they came all at once.

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>Code Geass was 10 years ago
>I'm still here
>All the shit I made in the Geass 08 era still gets regularly posted in nostalgia threads
>Nothing has ever come close to watching Gurren Lagann, Geass, and Madoka with /a/ and it's been 5 years since the last one of that trio. Although OPM and SnK were kinda fun but not same level.
>Don't even watch more than one TV anime a season anymore, if that, everything is boring and generic now
Fucking kill me.

>>138859284
old /a/ was literally /b/

>>138862712
/pol/ has flooded the entire site with their shit, derailing many threads on many boards with their fringe right wing politics, they are the furries of the '10s

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>>138854859
One of the biggest, like with anything from Geass.

You weren't here for Geass Sundays? You missed one of the best times on /a/.

>>138862795
>fringe right wing
Oh look, tumblr arrived

>>138854859
It was so stupid!

How did she kill so many of them with one gun?

Why would Lelouche even say what he said that caused it, as a joke?

It was so absurd and contrived!

Amazing.

>>138859713
There are many shows way worst than naruto and nobody say anything.
Hating naruto is just a meme

>>138862823
The board has literally been nicknamed stormfront and stormfags since before 2012, don't even try and deny that it's far right

>>138854859
There will never be any anime as big on /a/ as Code Geass.

>>138862721
>>138862775
I'd say the cutoff was 2008-09.

If you guys still have the pictures that you downloaded those years. /a/ imploded in 2008 from having 2m posts to fucking 10m posts within the year. After that it just exponentially grew.

What's funny now is everything that was "fun" those times, are seen as "appalling" now.

>>138862721
>It's good that we get new posters to keep things fresh. It was bad that they came all at once.

This. It was all because of that van incident.

>>331410267
Does keyhole player still work even? I remember the avalanche of posts for NUNALLY DESU

>>138858485
We don't have archives from 2008-2009, do we?

And we're missing a span of years between 2010 and 2015, too.

>>138859076
It's the fucking millennium flip that causes this shit. Every single person I've talked to act like 2000-2010 lasted a couple years instead of 10 and don't realize it. I had to repeatedly remind my parents that the new car they bought in 2001 was 15 fucking years old when they were trying to sell it because they were asking a retarded price for it.

>>138858696
Valvrave was shit trying trying to be another Code Geass but not really capturing it.

Cross Ange...I know little about it, honestly.

>>138862919
No, it really was 2007. You used to be able to check the data pretty easily when Alexa was still free. Things went crazy during summer 2007.

Even without Alexa it's obvious when you look at the large number of people that remember shitposting about CG but how relatively few were around for ttgl. Meanwhile, almost no one here even remembers what things were like when Haruhi was airing.

2008 is definitively 'new' and 2007 is borderline.

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>>138862712
/pol/ likes to force their shitposting memes outside the board

Luckily /a/ knows to not to respond to obvious shit, but that isnt the case for other boards


Pic related is pure cancer and not even funny. I had to leave two boards because I got sick of seeing this shit and other dumbasses getting triggered by it and showing it. Spoiler because it can actually derail the thread if the right person responds to it.

>>138859775
You sure love talking out of your ass.

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I still have this from '07.

I still remember people screaming "40% budget into this episode" and shit. (Was it 40% or another number? I forgot already)

Geass was the shit as well.

When it was fun, it was fun. Let people have it.

People now tend to try to downplay everyone's fun. I don't understand why. It boggles me.

>>138863074
>/pol/ likes to force their shitposting memes outside the board
/pol/ doesn't leave its board

are you this fucking dumb? we've had people fucking admit on /qa/ that they are shitposting /pol/ content to get the board hated

>>138863081
And you love being wrong. We all have our talents.

4chan from like pre-2012 era is pretty much the way Reddit talks now

And i'm sure in 2020 we'll look back on 2015 as reddit-tier also

>March 2016
>Still no archive
Where is foolz, daiz, etc?

>>138863169
Archives are a huge part of why 4chan is shit now, fuck them

>>138863074
Stop trying, /pol/ don't give a fuck about the others boards. It's the newfags and the redditors falseflagging who does that.

>>138863169
what is desustorage?

>>138859305
good man, s2 was nothing but sunrise trolling, it was shit beyond redemption

>>138863151
You really have no idea what you are talking about, it's odd you can't see how obvious it is.

>>138863133
It was forced on a show that did not deserve it by people that didn't know better. Geass was a very mediocre show that got attention because of a surge of inexperienced posters.

>>138863043
Well 2007 was the van incident so yeah I'll concede to you that one. Things went crazy in here after that one.

2008 can't be called new now though. Even in 2006 this place had so few posters. Didn't even reach a million posts. I'd say 2011? 2012?

>>138862946
BREAKING NEWS!
15 years is not "old" for a car.

>>138862651
>he wasn't there when OPM manga got big in /a/ 2 years before anime announcement

You don't have to try so hard to fit in anon, we tolerate your presence

>>138863218
Oh, thank you kind anon.
Here, try this legendary trips ##liquid

>>138857881
Aku no Hana was terrible.

>>138863231
>Geass was a very mediocre show that got attention because of a surge of inexperienced posters.
Everyone knew this during that time. It's not like people were hiding it. It was just fun in its own way.

>>138863248
>OPM was cancer from the start b-but we all know if it was around a few years its suddenly good!
Please, fuck off with your idiocy, I've spent my entire adolescence and adulthood on 4chan. 10 fucking years and stupid 14 year old cunts are still pretending I'm new because they have no arguments they can actually win.

>>138858029
what happened to /con/?

>>138863331
>stupid 14 year old cunts are still pretending I'm new because they have no arguments they can actually win.
You keep talking like that and you'll have trouble convincing anyone that things have changed

>>138860345
Represent.

>>138863349
I'm not following, I have trouble reading stupid

>>138863237
>the van
Are we talking about american hiroshima?

>>138863237
It's a naming convention, not some kind of title you earn. Think of it more like golden age vs silver age comics, a separation of eras.

If I'm remembering correctly the traffic almost went up tenfold from 2006 to 2008. I can't imagine what fraction of a percent those guys make up now and assimilation would have been impossible.

>>138863314
It wasn't fun, it was tiring. The novelty was only there for new posters. If you say they knew it wasn't a good show it definitely was not obvious at the time.

>>138858696
>shitty crown

me too, I think /a/ is the only one that could make that show enjoyable.

>>138863407
And I have trouble reading angry

Code Geass was complete garbage, especially the second season. I hope you all realize that even if you did enjoy it.

>>138863463
Don't be so stupid and I won't be so angry

What's your favorite tripfag, /a/?

>>138858942
watching both madoka and steins;gate with /a/ was a wonderful experience

>>138863506
Don't be so angry and I won't sound so stupid

>>138863331
See >>138863349

Whatever happened to fun things are fun.
Why are we acting like /v/ autists

>>138863510
Sakurafish

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RICKERT IS A MAN ALL MEN SHOULD STRIVE TO BE

>>138863546
one punch man was not a bad webcomic

the anime is very average

>>138863442
>If I'm remembering correctly the traffic almost went up tenfold from 2006 to 2008.
You're not wrong there.

>If you say they knew it wasn't a good show it definitely was not obvious at the time.
Really? I remember it being quite obvious.

Maybe because when the real episodes mattered, it eclipsed the part where people were saying shitty things about it.

I'll still say though, even shitty the shows people watch that became popular, it was fun when watching it with /a/.

>>138863546
OPM isn't fun, it's literally the type of trashy manga I used to read back when I was excited for Naruto and Bleach every week. The fact it repeats the same joke over and over and is the same thing its supposed to be parodying makes it terrible

I love fun things but I'm long done with that kind of thing. Seen it before, lots of times. It's hard being an adult and seeing copies of the same things but new and watching kids shit themselves over them because they didn't see the original

>>138863334
Died soon after.

Then some time before moot left us for the botnet he brought it back and killed it again.

>>138859366

Too bad it's literally impossible to do that know. RIP Yoshinoya sensei.

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>>138863609
>eclipsed
you chose the words that would hurt me the most, didn't you?

S;G with /a/ was a ton of fun. Actually 2011 was an incredibly fun year here. I haven't really felt anything on that level since then.

>>138863609
/a/ used to be slow enough to still have threads about bad shows without forcing them. The Geass drama each week was a drummed up excuse to go wild with low quality shitposting.

You just resonate more with a part of that new event-centric homogeneity that came during 2007.

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Star Driver Sundays were fun

>>138863708
early 2013 was loads of fun, too..but yeah


Will something like this happen again? The whole board uniting and ENJOYING anime?

>>138863716
>You just resonate more with a part of that new event-centric homogeneity that came during 2007.
I came here at around late 2006, but I understand what you mean. The event threads tend to stick to my memory more because of, well yeah, it felt like an event.

You're right, I wasn't here that much that time because it was slow, and when you come back, you'll still see the same threads. But when a whole lot of people suddenly surged in, it started getting chaotic.

>>138863439
The exploding van incident. Just type in google "4chan van exploding".

>>138858539
The inevitable Rance anime when Alicesoft really need the cash

>>138859420
I love banter and all but cuck's starting to get stale. Hopefully something nicer starts getting used.

>>138859224
Ace Attorney might be fun. Boku no Hero defiantly will be

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>>138863994
That's because cuck was never 'banter', just random shouting directed at things you don't like but can't be bothered to explain things properly.

>>138859855
Oh lord I remember this.

Fucking hell I'm still mad

>>138863994
I like it. It's a nice general purpose word that gets it point across and is a good substitute for fuck. Who cares if it was a /pol/ and /v/ meme?

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>>138860345
>did you mean "bane" ?

>>138861686
>Could have picked up Cross Ange
>Chose not to
>Turned out is was a wild ride
>Now vary that I am missing out and don't know what to pick up anymore
What a horrid hobby.

>>138863334
It was only ever open around convention time and eventually moot stopped giving a fuck

>>138862712
The tumblr boogeyman only bacame a thing during gamer gate. Before then no one would accuse anyone from being from there, at all. Now it's all people do & the ones who do accuse people are outing themselves as newfags.

/pol/ has always been a problem though.

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>>138860345
ofcourse

>>138862823
Another newfag or /pol/tard. This is why you got a containment board in the first place.

>>138863145
A lot of /pol/ is on a/ though.

>>138864535
I think the one who's outing himself as a newfag is you.

>>138857761
hi

Was anyone here for the Geass stream after Moot left?

That was some oldschool magic

>>138862578
moot wanted to turn this place into Animesuki when he divided /a/ from /jp/

>>138864603
>Been here since Code Geass shitstorm & on 4chan since before that

Yeah, no newfag.

>>138862946
The 2000's were pretty dull though when you really think about it the 10's so far have not been much better.

>>138864653
Well, he's now an adult who has to work and earn money.

For me this was a great moment. I didn't like Euphemia at first, she was really annoying, like she was trying to do more than she was capable of, she was just given the power because of royal family and stuff, but the geass activating on her by accident resulting in all that was fucking glorious. Not that I enjoyed it because I didn't enjoy her character, rather, I started enjoying her character after it. It was great to see her trying to fullfill the command but also struggling to keep it down.

Code Geass is truly great.

>>138857761
I was, but I watched CG only years later... Same with TTGL. I missed so much

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>>138859284
We were young then.
I bet if you'd taken a survey back then, most users would have been in their late teens to early twenties. Do the same survey now and most of us are in our late twenties and early thirties.
All the newfags now will likely never get the chance to make stuff that will cause them to cringe later due to the downward pressure of older anons who know better from experience.

I go back through my old folders now and then and most of it was only funny in context or as a result of it being a shared meme. They're enjoyable more for the memories than the actual content now.

>>138858781
Fapped multiple times to that scene.

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>>138859284

>Today there are anons on a/ who would Spam 'fujoshit' & tumblr in Code Geass threads today

Back then people acknowledged there was some gayness, but no one really bitched about it. They enjoyed the females & others enjoyed the males. There was also a lot of fun with it. There was no huge schism like there is today.

>>138863145
>we've had people fucking admit on /qa/

newfag. /qa/ hates /pol/, it's the entire reason /q/ got deleted. /q/ was entirely "why won't /pol/ be deleted?" and the staff didn't want to deal with all those dumb requests

>>138857761
I remember when anyone from 2008 onwards was considered the worst type of newfag. I was one of those epic memsters.

I didn't come to /a/ till 2010, though

>>138858908
>I think this is due to the website wide backlash against memes
This might not make sense don't really know how to word it but memes are only good when they're not spammed to oblivion it attracts the wrong crowd and then it's the memes themselves that steal discussion. Look at /v/ they can't even talk about Mario 64 because of some stupid meme.

>>138864805
women posting on 4chan ruined everything

/cgl/ was a mistake

>>138857793
>What happened 2013?
What was his name?

>>138864805
People don't even know what fujoshit means anymore and thinks it means 'female otaku' or some shit rather than gayshit.

>everyone ignoring the shitstorm happening right now just to complain about the lack of shitstorms
baka nano?

>>138859713
I don't even like Naruto for my own reasons and not because /a/ told me to but I'd take that over Umaru posting.

>>138864842
Just checked that place out.

Very few anons actually reply to each other. It's like they are all just talking to themselves.

>>138858942

Watching Futaba-chan watching us, screencapping our threads about decoding Faust quotes, or the quality of various Meguca Farts.

>>138858064
It's been gradual, and the internet outside is much, much worse. Also, compared to /a/, most other boards have aged like shit, and then there's dogshit like /mu/ and so on.

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>>138859855
>Panty and Stocking is almost 6 years old
Goddamn it, I want to go back, simpler times.

>>138864957
No you don't.

>>138860270
What does board culture even mean anymore? Every website has its own culture but here the term is so vauge.

>>138864894
the cuckstorm is a very light one, it won't last long

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>>138864919
Remember when people thought the future of the internet was anonymity? Those were some innocent times.

>>138864816
Might want to read my post again, champ

>>138865026
It is the future, dumbfucks on Facebook and Instagram are literally living in the past. What we long since threw away, they eventually will too

All it will take is one huge scandal to do with privacy and normalfags will abandon ship

>>138864892
This is true as evidenced by: >>138864842

>/a/ is all split up into single threads for shows
This is because of the catalog & search. It combines single small threads that die quickly about a show into one thread about a show as well as meaning bait threads get tons of replies because of visibility and lack of sage use

>>138865099
fags have been around forever

women are an unacceptable blight, as evidenced by: >>138865099

>>138859247
2007-fag here, that shit annoys the hell out of me.

>>138859247
kill la kill was a just a bad show and the fandom is bad because they like a bad show

>>138859247
I didn't even know there was a "rule" about shows not being allowed to have 2 or more threads until last year and I've been on 4chan since it began

>waah stop making this thread of something I don't like

>>138859224
Konosuba was pretty fun, I must say, but not meme material.

If Geass aired today, we'd receive it as we did KlK or Valvrave, I believe.

>>138865193
It has always been that case in 4chan especially for high traffic board.

>>138854889
It really was, wasn't it?

I haven't been really enthousiatic about anime like that in 3-4 years. People keep telling me I'm just jaded as fuck but I still like cartoons and weeb vidya okay.

>>138865109
That's just because of the massive bump limit. It made a really big difference when it was changed. Old /a/ was far more ephemeral.

>>138865193
shame and embarrassment used to be enough of a deterrent to stop bad threads from being made but now every naruto, homestock, and game of thrones gets it's own little perpetual chatroom general. It's disgusting.

It was one of the most retarded plot twists ever, if you're going to make a plot twist like that at least, don't make it look so dumb, the entire scene past from dramatic to funny and cringeworthy.

>>138854859
>How big was the shitstorm on /a/ when this happened?

Donald Trump YUGE!

All this talk about what has changed this board is interesting but can we all agree that internet culture as a whole went to shit when it became accessible to just about anybody? I'm talking about mainstream social media sites. I'd argue it was even before them that the internet started to feel different.

>>138865125
>>>/r9k/ you paranoid faggot.
I can't believe there are people that think there are anything but little girls on /a/

>>138865359
In my heart, I am a little boy.

>>138865359
if you post like a woman I will assume you are one, sorry you dumb bitch

>>138865109
You know that bait threads happen more often because people are bored of the same shit every day? It's like every season you know you're going to see a thread about every shitty anime with 10 posters in them and it gets grating. Then the rest is Kancolle, JoJo, Monsume containment threads, fucking yawn. Its all filtered and you realize there's no interesting content

All of 4chan is like this now, it's literally ręddit-fied

A good bit of shitposting gets the blood boiling

>>138865329
>that internet culture as a whole went to shit when it became accessible to just about anybody
It's not new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

>>138865329
2007 was when the internet opened up alot, so I'd date it to then.

Now children are on the internet so much there tastes make up perhaps more then the 18-25 demographic.

>>138862937
https://foolz.fireden.net/
Going all the way back to Thursday January 1st 1970.

>>138865329
Back then:
>lol you're on the internet all the time, what a loser

Now
>lol you're not facebook all the time, what a loser

And those faggots dare say this shit while laughing at the outdated memes and catchphrases they just discovered and think it's like the trendiest shit ever.

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What did /a/ think about pyssu in the past?

The feelings I get when I think of old /a/ are the same I get after a high: I feel a desire to amaze myself as much as I did as a kid. I consider myself a creative person, and while the things I might create now are surely more mature than the shit I did as a kid, truth is it is much harder to surprise myself now. Well, it's the same for 4chan. It's not even nostalgia.

Not as big as you might believe.
Geass only reached legendary status when pants on heads retarded R2 was airing.
>>138858942
It was great, not only due to /a/ but everybody in 2ch too was speculating and creating OC.
Easily my favorite time spend on /a/. Shame Madoka threads nowadays are just trite yurishit.

>>138865408
The problem arises when everyone does that and it's only shitposting everywhere. Then everyone believes that shitposting is how it should be all the time, and now we have constant shitposts instead of occasional ones to liven up the mood.

tl;dr: without moderate shitposting, we have constant shitposting.

>>138865453
>facebook
Scary story, a friend of mine recently once did a survey with a bunch of teenagers and found out nobody uses facebook anymore, or at least they don't use it as often as instagram or snapchat. To them facebook is for "long form" opinions pieces. The good news? None of them mentioned tumblr.

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>They weren't here during Color Wars

Purple still the best
Peterhausen ;_;

>>138865545
>instagram or snapchat
I swear to fucking christ, it scares me to think about what kind of adult will this narcissistic bunch turn out to be.

>>138865544
You hit the nail on the head, we need the unorganised format back

4chan shouldn't be fucking catalogs and organised threads for everything, its fucking trash. We need to go back to basics, and get rid of the stupid cunts archiving as well

>>138858781
Show was shit.

>>138863241
But the more years on a car, the more it sounds like it's got a ton of miles on it.

>>138865638
On the other hand, that stuff is just too handy and makes everything easier to handle. And I like simple functionality.

>>138865729
You have shit like 4chanx or the yotsuba catalog for that. I think just removing the native functionalities so that retards don't feel right at home would make enough of a difference.

>>138858696
Get ready for next season mate.

We might be in for some crazy rides.

>>138865638
This. The organization of everything splits posters. It means people who watch anime end up in seasonal threads which gets very stagnant and then you have threads outside of that full of constant shitposting and endless generals.

>>138865638
Let's not beat abpout the bush here. You mean generals?

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If you want something to be entertaining you have to participate. I still see some of the old /a/ in Boku girls early live translations, MT, Log Horizon when it aired, Yuuki Yuuna, Chaika when it aired, Amagi Brilliant park as some examples.

Or to put it more simply, you guys just have shit taste and end up in all the boring generals.

>>138860090
>he wasn't on /a/ when cross ange and kek la kek aired
I'm not saying they had comparable post-counts but they were very fun to watch and discuss, especially cross ange.

>there will never be an MC as based as lelouch again

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>>138863442
>look at me, my tastes are so much better than your shit tastes, even almost a decade ago which I cannot prove one way or the other

It doesn't matter if you're new, you're acting like a newfag riding the wave of hipster-ism. It might be time for you to get

>>>/out/

>>138866388
I'm not even sure what made him so based. I mean, he is edgy, wins most of the time, can make slaves out of anyone and is glorified as the saviour and literally conquers the world. So there is that.

But I still feel there is something other then that.

>>138866554
He was charismatic as fuck.
Also you have a pretty bad memory if you think he wins most of the time.

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>>138866290
CA threads were alright but VVV threads are a better recent example of pure unpretentious 4chan fun

>>138860180
I usually don't feed into this, but /v/ is rife with elitism. We always had quite a bit on /a/, but most fags would discard it for FUN.

Now it's the other way around and most anons would rather shitpost than allow fun if it's not about their favorite siamese smoke signal

>>138866676
The first season was really fun with /a/, especially the funpost filled livewatch threads. I dropped it by the second though.
I hope /a/ can have fun again with more stupid anime and take it easy.

>>138866707
>Speak like a redditor
>Complain about elitism
Surprising.

>>138866805
So what if that anon does?

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>>138866805
How the fuck dose a redittor speak? I guess you've been there a lot to know for certain.

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>>138866959
>I

2nd cour Cross Ange threads were fucking amazing.

Most of the shitposters and yurifags had left by that point and you just had people who genuinely enjoyed the show and it's bullshit.

Best threads on /a/ last year.

>>138858539
Phoenix Wright. It's a guaranteed trainwreck.

>>138866553
You are upset because someone has a different opinion than you and so you want him to stop interacting with you? Why did you even bother wandering out of your general?

I bet you are one of those people that think opinions can never be wrong.

>>138857761
I'm still here.

>>138867798
It's just gonna be the next big normalfag magnet. Speaking of which, when the fuck is DBS going to end?

>>138868014
great post dude

>>138854859
I'm starting to forget the details of what happened in older shows. I don't know if it's because I've seen so many shows now or what. Does anyone else have this problem?

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>>138858781
Had more fun watching mahouka together with /a/
the entire show was a single mey-mey

>>138868336
Sasuga Onii-sama. Still the best. The very best.

Why the fuck in the world is it just getting a movie? Goddamn.

>>138866553
Is that the beginning of a porn?

The days when Angel Beats aired and r/a/dio threads were commonplace, was the golden age for /a/.

Last genuine fun I had with /a/ was Samurai Flamenco. Too bad shitposters ruined some of it.

>>138856500
>hey guys, remember when /a/ was good?

>>138868888
Nice repeating digits

>>138864653
funny given I came here from animesuki in 2009, forums are really a complete garbage way of posting

>>138868727
The only real shitposting in SamFlam threads were those idiotic rape spammers.
We had so much fun with the rest of the show (expecially with slicing simian).

>>138866554
Most of the time his plans get shat on by Lancelot and spinzaku, any time he wins he just sets himself up for a bigger failure.

>>138868727
Watching /a/ burn over A.Z was pretty fun.

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I enjoyed watching Amnesia and Diabolik Lovers with /a/.

Dance with Devils seemed to have a lot of potential to be like those shows, shame no one really watched it.

>>138865387
Go back to /r9K/.